Worst winters ever?
What are the worst winters you guys have ever seen in Kansas City? How bout the most snow and coldest temperatures? Are the winters long there?
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I lived in KC on the coldest day ever in KC. It was finals week. Dec 19 I think. -23? Look it up. Can’t remember year.
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Their main issue is ice
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Not sure. I can tell you about the mildest winter I've ever experienced. I'm in the midst of it. I think the coldest daytime low so far out here has been like 64 or so. I know it's not technically winter yet by even for Phoenix, it's been unseasonably mild. I know by the end of next week we are expecting daytime highs of......wait for it......shudder........
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I remember in 1996 it was 27 below up here. You guys remember that cold spell?
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Since I've lived here I think the worst was 2011 or 2012. Can't quite remember exactly. I know there was a shit-load of snow though.
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winter starts in 7 days! l
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i remember a winter in 89 where it got -10 or so - and me and my roommates engine blocks were frozen.....car wouldnt start due to cold.
That's too cold for me, and exactly why I struggle through 65 degree winters now. |
I wish we’d get some cold weather. It sucks working in it in my career but this mild weather is killing my side job.
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Oh, sorry.
Ah-HEM! This will be the coldest, worst winter ever because global warming/climate change/Trump/God hates the gays/US deployment to X/Hollywood Rape/the moral decline in civilization in western society... |
For the entire winter season, I'm not sure because I don't remember what the rest of it was like. But the ice storm we had in 2002 was the worst. We were without power for 11 days because the line from the pole to my house was taken out by a tree. There were so many without power that we were waaaaay down the priority list to get service restored.
We ended up staying at my FIL's duplex for the majority of it, which sucked majorly. He kept it so ****ing hot in there. I seem to remember a tear running down my face when power was finally restored. |
Thousands of years ago, there came a night that lasted a generation. Kings froze to death in their castles, same as the shepherds in their huts; and women smothered their babies rather than see them starve, and wept, and felt the tears freeze on their cheeks... In that darkness the White Walkers came for the first time. They swept through cities and kingdoms, riding their dead horses, hunting with their packs of pale spiders big as hounds.
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I remember that, was that in Raytown or Independence?
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96 in North Dakota was a fun one. I was in college and we basically were stuck in the dorms for a 3 days. The National Guard was activated to clear out the snow in some areas and then there was pretty good spring flooding.
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The best winter day was the night I came out of work late and the entire passenger side of my car was covered in an ice sheet. Being an Eagle scout, I pee'd on the lock to open the door. Had to rev the engine to great the tires free from the ice. Then it was clunk, clunk, clunk, all the way home, looking out my side window to see my way home. I think it was like 4 degrees by that time.
Why is that the best winter? It's the moment I decided to move to Phoenix. I was out of there the next week. No job, no home, no nothing. I'd had enough of that shit. |
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For the rest of us that worship meteorology, winter is loosely defined as starting in November or early December in the KC area. The start date varies based upon location around the world. |
Honestly, I don't remember the year - 95-96? - But it was October....I worked late the night before and didn't have to go back in till like 5 PM. I got up at around noon and I couldn't figure out why the hell it was so bright in the house. Our house (at that time) had six or seven skylights and it was like BOOM!
I finally looked out the window and there was 8 or 9 inches of snow - in October. If I remember correctly, Old OP caught the brunt of it - trees down everywhere, power out. it was a mess for 5-6 days. |
I never remember weather. My wife will say, "Remember that bad winter we had three years ago?" and I'll say, "I have no idea what you're talking about." I'll remember unique events, but not entire winters.
That said, we got 32" of snow once, which was a really big snow. I remember being up on a ladder trying to knock some of it off my roof, because there were some buildings that collapsed under the weight. I lost my former barber shop in that snow. In a different winter, we had some stretch of several days where the high temperature didn't reach zero. We had to put a heating pad on one of our water lines, because it froze up despite being inside the house. We eventually learned that it's next to a vent pipe, and the air in the vent pipe was so cold that it froze the water line that didn't even touch it. Very weird. |
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About 8-10 years ago, major ice storm during a long cold winter. Power lines down all over the southern part of the state. After 11 days without power, temperatures in the single digits,sleeping every night with my two beagles, one on each side, I decided to break down and buy a $750 generator.
Got it running, extension cords running to everything and fired it up. Glorious heat, television, internet. I was a happy man. Three hours later the electricity came back on. |
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The year Derrick Thomas died.
Buckle up my friends. |
Up here, the winter of 2013-2014 was the worst. We had two kinds of weather - sub zero or snowing. It was brutal and relentless and just went on and on and on. I think it was the end of February or maybe the beginning of March before we had a day where the temperature rose about freezing. Mountains of snow with nowhere left to put it, and it just kept coming.
I deal better with extreme cold weather than extreme hot weather, and get through the shitty cold days by remembering how much I hate the shitty hot days. But that line of reasoning stopped working during this frozen ****ing hell. |
1976, 1983 or 4
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We're taking applications, they must be accompanied by a recent photograph. |
When was the last white christmas? I feel like there was a near blizzard on the 24th somewhere in the last 5-8 years.
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that ice storm back in like maybe 95 or so, most of the city lost power for like a week or 2. that sucked
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Over here on the Cali coast it got to a very low 32* recently and it was freezing out
It's not Kansas though. |
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The worst storms I remember were the ice storm in January '95 that knocked out our power for the better part of a week and the blizzard in 2011 that dropped 17 inches or so of snow in CoMo and shut the city down for about four days.
In the first instance, we watched ABC on a six-inch black and white TV that was powered with D batteries and kept warm from radiant heat from the wood stove, since the blowers couldn't circulate the heat. In the second case, I spent about four or five hours shoveling the driveway. Overall, though, I can't remember any winters that were consistently brutal for some reason. The last two have been diet Fall. |
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As far as I can tell, though, the 32 inches at my house was the second-most it had seen, with the most being 45 inches in 1913. That was before I lived there. |
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2003 ice storm was a pretty bad one for me.
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I feel so bad for you sorry ****s. :P
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the Blizzard of 1966
http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index....ard_of_66.html four-day storm blasted Central New York -- dumping 42.3 inches of snow on Syracuse and a staggering 102 inches on lakefront Oswego County -- residents and weather experts alike still speak of it in reverent tones. I was 7 and had a snow WEEK. Not a snow day a snow week. Built the most awesome snow forts in history. |
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This was 2009 (I think) in Omaha... KC got some snow on top of snow on top of snow, but nothing like this.
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We implants must stick together, brother. Particularly Chiefs fans. "John has a long mustache." |
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One of these ****ers: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/hig.../lakelynn1.jpg |
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Because bro, that studio apartment (with a roommate) on that bartender's salary sure is gonna be sweet!!!! |
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1992 I was in like 3rd grade I think. They ran out of snow days so they were like “**** it bitches come to school.”
Now the busses sure as **** weren’t coming down the roads so my parents had to get my ass to the highway. Goddamn snow got so bad our suburban got stuck. Then the pickup got stuck so I had to ride with my sister in the tractor to the highway to catch the bus. I don’t know any of the measurables but it was ****. I think that was the same year it went from 80 to 0 on Halloween and absolutely destroyed every Chinese elm tree in town. |
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Ice storm back in the early 70's had to move out of house into a furnished model home for a week. Suffered big time...
I lost my prized red tailed shark from the incident. https://www.keepingtropicalfish.co.u...k_redTail4.jpg |
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If you need a side job in KC, you’d need 3 side jobs in San Diego. Best of luck! |
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Oh most don't have basements...... |
I remember one year where it got up to 100 every day in July. That same December never got above 0. The pipes froze up 3 times. Our rental house only had a wall unit for heat so we were running kerosene heater all the time. Only warm spot was the waterbed.
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I love winter. Nothing grows. Dobt have to mow or worry about weeds. My electric bill is $250 less a month. Its fantastic
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Coop you post a lot of gay. Just sayin
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Only when Billay gives me reason, and what is a lot???
You ever meet a bartender who couldn't get laid? And that gut looks like eDave 15 years ago. |
Ice storms in late 2000’s hit SW MO particularly hard.
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Winter of 2013-2014 Polar Vortex. It didn't warm up until May. Had snow on the ground until April. But most of it came March and April. I had a low temp of -27F. Wind chills of -40F.
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